Fastener for suspender-ends



(No Model.)

H. A. HAYDEN. FASTENER FOR SUSPENDER ENDS. No. 546,424. Patented Sept. 17, 1895.

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FASTENER FOR SUSPENDER"ENDS.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 546,424i, dated September 17, 1895.

Ap lication filed February 27, 1895 Serial No. 589,864. (No model.)

To OLZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY A. HAYDEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fasteners for Suspender-Ends, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a fastener for a suspendenend, which usually has a buttonhole, whereby the suspeuder is attached removably to the button on the waistband of the trousers; and the object of the invention is,

in part, to provide a simple wire-fastening device which will obviate the necessity of making a buttonhole in the suspender-end, and, in part, to provide a device which will serve all the purposes of a cashoft as well.

In the accompanying drawings Ihave illustrated an embodiment of my invention.

Figure 1 is an edge View of the suspenderend and fastening device, showing them at tached to the button on the trousers. Fig. 2 is a front view of the same. Fig. 3 is a rear View of the same. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the wire-fastening device detached, as it will be made for the trade.

A represents the usual fabric of the suspender-end, in which, ordinarily, a buttonhole is worked.

My fastening device, as shown detached in Fig. 4, consists of a loop made from a single piece of spring wire, and comprising a crossbar Ct, which is adapted to be applied to the face of the suspender-end A, and a slender stirrup b, to the lower end or bight of which is secured a tab 0, of leather, for example, which is or may be lapped about the wire and stitched across to hold it in place. On the cross-bar a is slipped a tube 01, which serves to cover the break in the wire where the two ends thereof are brought together. In Fig. 4: this sleeve is partly broken away in order to show this break in the wire.

The wire-fastening device is applied to the suspender-end A by passing the latter down behind the bar a, which is set forward by bends e 2, so as to allow the bar a to apply itself to the front side or face of the suspender-end A, while the loop I) applies itself to the back or rear face of the same. When in place the tab 0 is stitched fast or otherwise properly secured to the fabric A.

Fig. 1 illustrates the manner of using the suspender-end. X represents the waistband of the trousers, and 0s a button thereonin the usual place. The suspender-end is drawn down until the button :0 is just above the top of the loop b-in the position indicated by the dotted circle inFig. 3-and the suspenderend is then drawn up until the button has passed down between the stirrup b and fabric A, the neck of the button taking between the two side wires forming the stirrup. The dotted circle in Fig. 2 shows the final position of the button. This elfects the fastening. The disengagement is readily effected by drawing down the suspender-end. I prefer to form a pinch or contraction in the stirrup b at I)", in order that at this point the neck of the button will only pass by, slightly springing apart the wires of the stirrup, the break in the bar a facilitating this springing open of the loop. The stirrup or elongated loop Z) will be wide enough at its upper end to pass the button; but at all points below it will be too contracted for the button to pass. By the neck on the button I mean the mass of thread which attaches the button to the trousers. With the flat button ordinarily used this thread forms a sort of neck or stem. Sometimes, however, buttons are used which have necks formed on them, and my device operates equally well with these. In lieu of the tab 0 the wire stirrup or loop may be secured to the fabric A. with thread or in any convenient manner. The sleeve d is not absolutely essential to my device; but it serves to house the free ends of the wire forming the device.

My fastening device may be used with any button which will pass between the bends e e, and will not pass between the side wires of the stirrup or loop 1).

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. A fastening for Suspender ends made from metal and comprising a button stirrup adapted to lie in the rear of the sus'pender, bends e, e, which pass around the edges of thesuspender, a cross-bar formed by terminals of the ends 6, e, which extends across 10 b, bends e, 0, connecting the upper ends of the side-wires of the loop b with the respective ends of the bar a, and a tab 0, substantially as set forth.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing 15 witnesses.

HENRY A, HAYDEN, Witnesses:

PETER A. Ross, HENRY CONNETT. 

